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Jackson Square is viewed from the podium near the Mississippi River levee. This is one of the grandest plazas in the USA, due in part to the influence of the Spanish and French colonists who took turns ruling Louisiana as a colony --- until Napoleon sold it to the USA through the efforts of Thomas Jefferson in 1803. ...

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Lucca is a medieval walled town in western Tuscany. This panorama was taken from the famous tower &quot;Torre Guinigi&quot;. It is remarkable in that several oak trees grow from its top (you can see some leaves of one in the corner of the panorama, a unique feature in Tuscany, where hilltop villages with treeless tow...

Montisi is a small ridgetop village (population around 500) south of Florence, Tuscany, Italy. There is one Bed and Breakfast and one restaurant in the village, both of which are highly recommended. The village is surrounded by olive groves (the silver-green trees on the hillside in the photo) and makes for a good ba...

This panorama was taken from the beach at Monterosso, Liguria, Italy showing the coastline of the Cinque Terre (pronounced &quot;chin-quai terr-uh&quot; --- which means &quot;the five lands&quot; in English) on a stormy May afternoon in 2007. The Cinque Terre is famous for its five small villages connected by a precar...

The Lookoff is located north of Wolfville, Nova Scotia, near the town of Canning. It is on the North Mountain (really a ridge), which, together with the South Mountain ridge, forms "The Valley", the most fertile agricultural district in Nova Scotia --- famous for apples, pears, plums, grapes,berries and cherries and a...

Begun in 1397, this was the golden villa of Yoshimitsu, the 3rd Shogun of Ashikaga, after he abdicated the Shogunate. The pavilion was burned in 1950 by an unstable novice monk and was completely restored in 1955.
The peaceful landscape was created with a mirror-pond (Kyoko-chi) with carefully designed islands and...

Taken May 2008. The view to this Torii is a favourite photograph for tourists to this region of Japan. From Hiroshima, this is located a 40 minute train ride then 40 minute ferry ride away from the City Centre. The gate's base is submerged at high tide, and seen on mud flats at low tide. This picture is taken from ...